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Aligning in Crisis: Practical Insights to Seize Opportunity
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Aligning in Crisis: Practical Insights to Seize Opportunity

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This brief discusses key learnings from the Aligning in Crisis’ first convening of surveillance partners. The national panel of surveillance partners includes population health and health equity experts from key trade associations and non-profit social service organizations to draw out meaning from collected innovations born in the response to the triple crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The surveillance partners meet quarterly to evaluate, among many things, how the innovations address equity; which (if any) could be scaled and under what conditions; and what policies at the local, state, and federal levels would sustain transformative innovations and promote alignment between public health, social services, and health care sectors to better meet community goals and needs.

The Georgia Health Policy Center, in partnership with the School of Public Health at George Washington University and with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is identifying, synthesizing, and disseminating cross-sector policy and implementation opportunities that facilitate recovery from the triple crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, impacts of the 2020 economic downturn, and the ongoing impact of structural racism. The work – Aligning in Crisis — builds on Aligning Systems for Health: Health Care + Public Health + Social Services.

Publication

A Foundation For Health And Well-Being: Meaningful Employment

This publication explores how Employment and Community First Choices, a program for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, created and paid for by TennCare, Tennessee's Medicaid program, helps participants work and live independently.

Webinar

Aligning in Crisis: Strategies and Tools to Leverage Federal Funding

On 9/14, experts from Aligning in Crisis, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will discussed how, if deployed strategically and effectively, federal funds can advance equity, shift power to the community, and set the stage for positive, long-term change.

Publication

Patients Lift Their Voices To Advance Maternal Health

This publication compiles insights from EleVATE, a program that offers group-based prenatal care with a curriculum designed by and for Black women. EleVATE explores whether changing the way clinicians interact with patients can, in itself, improve outcomes and equity.